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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SYVER LOE, F MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR 0F TWO-THIRDS TO JESSE W. WALKER',y 0F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

MULTIPLIEX VOTING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application tiled December 7, 1908.

Patented Sept. 24, 1912. serial No. 466,812.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, SYvnn Lon, a citizen of'the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of fMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Multiplex Voting,- Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description` of the invention, such as will enable others sldlled in the art to which it apper tains to make and use the same.

My invention relates particularly to multiplex voting machines, and has for its object to improve the. same with a view of securing increased vote registering capac ity, with aminimum of mechanism and at a minimum of cost.,

To the above ends, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of defviees hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

Actual expe? enc`v with voting machines at elections, has demonstrated the fact, that a single voting machine has not suflicient 2lfvoteregistering capacity to enable voters at a precinct of the ordinary size, to register lall their votes within the limits of time customarily allowed. For example, about three minutes, on an average, is required for the 3.9voters to register their votes at a general election, and the polls are customarily kept open for voting for a period of thirteen hours. The average precinct has about 350 voters, and many precincts having 500 and 5 even more voters. To register even 350 votes,

at the average rate abovetstated, will consume approximately seventeen and one-half hours or more than four and one-half hours more than the time allowed for doing so.

49' The registers and frame work are the ex pensive parts of all voting machines.

In my prior Patent 994,763 dated June 13, 1911, I disclose and claim a multiplex voting machine, comprising several independent sets or series of register actuators arranged to cooperate with a common-set of registers, and which actuators were so arranged that they could be moved from normal positions into set positions, and restored to normal positions without action on the said registers. Also, restoring devices were provided for the independent sets ot' register actmitors, in Conner-tion with means for rendering the set registers operative on their respective registers.

ators are in the form of sliding keys, and

each set thereof, involves a multiplicity of these so called keys, alined in vertical columns and horizontal rows. support for the common set of registers is preferably arranged both for horizontal and vertical movements, the first noted movement serving to move the registers, approximately into coperative relation in respect to the particular set of register actuators or keys, and the latter movement serving to completely or finally position the said registers, so that they will be subject to the cooperating register actuators or keys. The arrangement is such, however, that normally, the register actuators or keys may be nloved individually into set positions and again back into normal positions, without action on any register, and for each set of register actuators a restoring mechanism is provided.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the improved machine, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to these drawings: Figure l is a perspective view showing the machine in use; Fig. Q is a diagrammatic plan view of the machine, some parts being broken away; Fig. 3 is a side elevation, with some parts broken away, showing the machine closed up and let down into its framework so that it is'in condition for storage or shipment; Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic view in elevation, with parts broken away, illustrating Yan arrangement of the register actuators or keys for voting mixed tickets; Fig. 5 is a view partly in diagrammatic plan view and partly in horizontal section, showing the arrangement of the several sets of register actuators or keys and the common set of registers and showing also the supports therefor, some parts being broken away and some parts being removed; Fig. f3 is a vertical section taken :.ip'noximately on the line 1' of Fig. 5, some parts bein left in full; Fig. 7 isv an enlarged horizontal sec` 110k The traveling tion taken approximately on the line 037 of Fig. 6; Fig. S is an enlarged vertical section taken on the same line as Fig. t3, showing approximately the saine parts that are shown in Fig. 7, some parts being broken away; Fig. 9 is a detail in horizontal section on the saine line as Fig. 7. showing one oi the register actuators or keys moved' into a Set position; Fig. l() is a. detail in section on the line a am ofi Fig. 8; Fig. ll is a view corresponding to Fig. S. but showing the register actuators or keys in poifitions and the registers in position to be actuated by return movements thereof; Fig. l2 is n horiaontal section taken on the line zum w12 of Fig. (3; Fig. 13 is a vertical s wtion taken on the line wl afl of Fig. l2. some parts being broken away; Fig. 14 is a vertical section taken on the line at te of lt`ig. 1Q; Fig. 15 is a detail in horizontal section taken on the irregular line e ai on Fig. (3; Fig. it is a vertical section taken on the line ai ad of Fig. l5, some parts being left in full; Fig. 17 :i fragmentary view partly in plan7 and partly in horizontal section, showing a supplemental votre limiting device for connection to keys where several keys are apprt'ipriated to a candidate appearing as the Candidate of Several ditierent political parties for the saine otliee; Fig. 1S is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig'. 1.7; Fig. i9 is a frontv elevation, showing an attachment for the vote limiting mechanism, whereby two columns of vote limiting devices ma)7 be connected and made to operate as a single group; Fig. 90 is a side ehn ation ot' the parts shown in Fig. 19; flfig. il i. a front elevation showing in detail a register 1t" l is :i detail vie\v partly .ting strip: Fig. 2") in uecttion. and parti)v in elevation. choning7 register actuating keys and coi'iperati.gr vote limiting mechanism arranged for so called fractional voting; and Fig. it?, a diagrammatic plan view, showing a slightl)v moditied arrangementv ot' the several sets ot register actuators or kt ln the machine illiuti in the dran'- ing's. the register actuators are assembled in i'our sets and are radi: liv extended in and project outward from a ciiindrical support. so that t'onr parties at the stone maV .not

dates of the different political parties are grouped together.

.lloc/ine naar mtl aupporlfs.--'1lie construction of the machine illustrated in the drawings, described in detail, is as follows: The pedestal or rack which supports the case of 'the machine is shown as made up oi' a hase ring' l, haring four uprightl rods- Q rigidly secured thereto at their lower ends. Also as shown, the base ring l supported on casters 3. The case ot.' the machine, in which the mechanism of the machine is mounted, has a tour-armed hase bracket 4. and a tour-armed top bracket 5, the arms of both oi which brackets radiate from centrallvP located hubs in which the ends of an upright shaft are journaled. The arms oi' the base bracket 4 are arranged to slide vcrtically upon the rods i3 of the supporting pedestai and to be rigidly secured thereto by set screws 7. Coiicentric metal rings 8 and tl are rigidly secured to raised bosses l() on the arms ot the said basel bracket al, and another pair of eonetjfntric rings ll and l2 are rigidly secured to the arms ot' the top bracket 5. The arms of the upper and lower brackets l and at their outer ends. are rigidliY tied together by upright metal eolumn plates itt. siiotvn in Figs. 5 and (t, which column plates at their upper ends, are directlyY secured to the arms of said brackets 5, and at. their lower ends are directl)v secured to the rings and 9.

The machine illustrated is designed for simultaneous use bv four persons. and hence. there are four sets of register actuators or kevs tor Cooperation with the common set ol'l registers.r That readlv accesa ma)Y be had to the registers. and to the register actuators. each set of register actuators or kevs is mounted on and carried by a movable segmental support that constitutes part ot the trame work of the machine case. As shown. these independent key supports` are hinged at one extremity. for swinging movements in a horixontal plane, and each is constructA ed a follows: "l'he numeral llt. (see fi :ind tit. indicates a segment-al channel plate, the tower iiange of uhich rests loosely on the lower i'ing nel the out-turned upper .flange of which is riveted or oifliernise rig chine tnav snnnitancmtslv et rcgIster acid llv secured to a plurality ot' vertically ex i tended circnmtertaitiallv spaced ticket :snp-

The common set of registers.

porting' bars` l5. having grooved edges. The

Itiangcd louer ends ot' these bars l'rest looselv upon the louer rut;v t), and the and band of register actuators'. and are arranged to be moved into positions which will sub 'lect' the proper regisiers to the actions of lit,

t' .i set ot rcgidci actuators or kers. A\l-;o

the candr l mixed membt thereof are. rigidly connected to the loner tlange ot the .said channel plate i4. The outer flange ot' a horizontally disposed bearing plate .7 is riveted or otherwise rigidly secured to the ipriglit bars l5. by rivets or bv other incanto. The .several hars l5 aline with limiter hars lli". `the upper ends oi' which arc rigidlvY secured to the upper ring l2.

mental supporting frame for a set| of register actuator keys.

e oi the extreine end bars 15 of each of egr al actuator or key supporting above described, is connected by ,i i8, see partieuiarly Figs. and 6, to one oi the arms of the lower bracket 4, and to the immediately .nf'erlying fixed bar 15a. This permits each segmental key supporting frame to be swung outward on its hinges, into a position in which the innermost portion thereof will be exposed to view. Such pivotal movement is indicated in part by dotted lines, on Fig. 5. To the top of the horizontal portion of the lower bearing plates 111, and to the bottom of the top bearing plates .17, segmental bars 19 are rigidly secured, and these two segmental bars of each of the several hinged frames are rigidly connected to the ends of oircumferentially spaced upright guide bars 20, best shown in Figs. and t5.

Thin metal ticket holding strips 21 are slid into the grooved edges of the bars 15 and the printed tickets, in the form of paper strips Y. see Fig. il, are adapted to be placed against the outer faces of said metal strips to be thereby held in a like manner,

id grooved bars 15.

actuating keysflhe register or keys, which as before stated are n vertical columns and in hori 1.., have bifurcated body portions stems 23, which latter terminate The said stems are mounted through perforations in the upright bars 15, and the body portions 22, at their edges, work in grooves cut in the edges of the upright. bars 20, so that the said keys are :noun l for radial movements toward .15 and .trfU axis of the shaft ti, see particu 5, tl, 7 and 8. Each key body has a rack 25, that is pivvl thereto at one end and has :engagement therewith ai its is ot a notch arf*` lug n, d racks 25 are pri' rabiy of spiV i so that their free ends may be sprung ori of engagement at 2G, and hence move pivotally into inoperative positions, for a purpose which will hereinafter appear. The transversely extended inner end port-ion of the key bodies 22, sce particolari Figs. 7, 8, and 9, are formed with reversel eveied cam surfaces 27. By reference to `ig. 9, it will be seen that when a key is moved into its set position, the teeth of the rack 25 are moved out of mesh Wit-l1 the teeth of the co operating pinion 29, so that thejnal inward movement of the key does not move the said a5 pinion.

'Vote amza'ng mechanism-This mecha-h nism, except for certain improvements, 1s .ot the type disclosed and broadly claimed 1n .my prior Patent, 712,079, of date. October 28,

1002, entitled Voting machine, and hence, in this case is illustrated only in part. For each vertical column of keys, there is a vertical column of laterally expansible devices made up of threaded hubs 2S and nut members 29. The so-called hubs of each stack are axially alincd and are mounted to slide axially upon a fixed or non-rotary shaft 30, preferably made square in cross section. As shown, said shafts 30 extend through the openings in the corresponding column of key bodies 22 and are fixed at. their ends to the upper bearing plates 17 and to the horizontal portions of the channel plates 14. There is one hub 2S and one nut member 29 for each key; and the said nut members, which as shown, are in the form of gears and have wide faces, mesh one with each of the key racks 25. Each column of gears 29 is located inside of a tubular' casing 31, secured at its upper and lower ends respectively to the bearing plates 17 and 14, and having open sides which permit the racks 25 to engage with the respective gears. At suitable intervals, at points between the gears, each shaft 30 is held against twisting movement or torsional spring, by disks, 32, (see Figs. 8 and 10), which disks have square perforations engaging the said shafts, and are .provided with outwardly oilset segmental portions 32 that engage the side openings in the respective tubular casing 31. These disks are therefore free for sliding movements in respect to the shaft 30 and casing 3l.

By means of suitable stop devices, such for instance, as pins 33, (see Fig. 8), passed through the casing 31 and through the nonrotary shaft 80, between certain of the gears or nut members 29, the said gears and their cooperating hubs may be separated into groups of the desired number, having the desired total play or olearance between the nirn'ilgiers of the lateral expansible eleIi-ionts. l5, r iustanffe, with the in bine arranged For itin of mixed ticket., as above stated,

the and with the first three columns of keys at the lefty in respect to Figs. 1, 4 and 5, as4 signed to the State ballot, the next three columns to the right assigned to the county ballot, the next three columns to the right. assigned to the city ballot, and the last column at the right assigned to constitutional amendments, and other matters that should be voted ves or no, the grouping and adjustments of the expansible hub and gear elements should be as follows: For instance, the group assigned to otlice of governor should correspond to the number of parties represented, thus, there being tor is zure, Republican, leaiotratic and Prohibition cantlitlultb ,l'oi gmvrnor. thrul htttltlllv pausihlc votre limiting fltffitt 57420 yhoultl he ct'iulinutl httutru tuo html; pim 33 or other fuituhltx Istop tlvricug. :intl thtrt- -houltl he ntnfntitllxxv :tu zunouut ol fluztruut'c or phiy lltwmin the suitl tl firm-1 sulliriont, :nul ont)y sulliuiout. to pvrinit un inuurtl iuovtintntV of on@ rcfjitvr zusttritinpj lt mul rlwulling movement of tu@ tforrcwjioruling guur il). llcnrfo, whtu ono nl tho mit threw hoi@ alpproprizxtoil to :jovtrnfzr is puuhtml iuwxrll to 4 itS SQL positionr` tho trorrtwliioo-liugl' i l t l' '1. ,i mouth ot igt-tty uur! t-f; mi

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thro@ ull 'volw to hv rant. Il howevtr, `l:ich ol' thro@ politit-ul partie;v should nominato three muulitlnlwj1 thirlyix hay unal un ugual nuluhtft' of limiting lcrift-s YYYil), in thuy suine grt'iup, woultl ho required, :unl in this instance, us woll tu in olhcw` tht.l normal plut' lwtween thv vote limiting devices f'b---zt should he juill, sulllriont to permit. the movornonb to set pobitons. of :L combination ol' keys rtqireucnting in the aggregate three lull rotos. lt sohloni lmppeu however. that ull of tho politica@ partiti; will uouiinftte the untxftmuni of threwy rauulitlutof: for tht mine (lire. :intl luy-uri' in };1^.1 't fu. the numher of lm, mul, they zuuuhor of voti limiting detircs 914' :ffl in tlitfi-oui, will he lunch lens than thtl luuxinnun nuitihtr usffuuutl. In :ttl-- ju ting1 tht: nun'fhiuo for thin` l'ttwtionul fob lng, tht uSuatl lil-"s, proxitlud fur other purpwtw will tw url-fh hut the foto limiting lt\'iw.- V hmiugfj tlillurt-utiul thrwltls. neuft he proprrlj; sulmiutwl l'or thwc uset'l 'ltr urtlinuny voting.

lt sonicthuo happens. that: the Same per- ,Qon will ha rvr'rewutud im candidate of Sevrftl political parties; for the sume olllcta and h nu@ l provide :1 Supplcturntul Vote limiting tloritu or ztluffliuwnt, which. whvn any 1 ont` of the sworn! tlil'ltrent keys assigned tu i wml) Cumhrlutc lY of" tho olhvr iiollt lit-fou but" the other keys 'itl-al uur@ or partifzs aslgnml to tht Lumi it iitlitlztfwill he lotletl in noi-uml pontionv. or @n that; they '.\ui};-iv:iu -||li:1l voto limiluairuml in 17' and whitzltuprihed. .L and uumner htm wl with rack hohl tlm, hot j vortiow 'i vitto l'urtwl {iiniziuf Il Ono-o. if one person nplvlurs st.` t fatutlitlztt'e for litio politirul purtiws. u'holt thru@ or more polititl, parli/millar oliw?,

stances where more than one party may bev elected to the same oice and where one of the candidates is the common candidate of more than one of the political parties represented.

Frequently at primary elections and sometimes at general elections, there will be such a large number of candidates that more than one complete column of keys and vote limiting devices are required to represent the candidates for a single otlice. To take care of this condition, I provide means for connecting all or a part of the vote limiting devices of one column with all or a part ot the vote limiting devices of another column, so that they may be used as a single group having a predetermined definite totl amount of expansibility. One form of this device is illustrated in Figs. 19 and 20, wherein 20 the numeral 39 indicates a segmental push bar shown as seated in the tie-plate 40, secured to the upper end of two adjacent bars 20. A screw held clip 41, as shown. holds the push bar 39 in a segmental seat formed in the tie-plate 40. The ends of the segmental push bar 39 engage with the upper ends of hubs 42, that are telescoped onto the upper ends of two adjacent non-rotary shafts 30. .The said hubs 42 are arranged to be engaged l by the upper ends of the upper members of threaded hubs 28. With this arrangement, as is evident, expanding movements of the 'devices 28-29 in one column, will be transmitted to corresponding members in an ady, jacent column.

Registers and support for sama-The registers or tallieswwhich as before stated, are arra ged in several vertical columns,

f may be o standard or any suitable construe-" '-40 tion, and as shown, the so called escapement mechanism for directly actuating the same, lis of the character disclosed and claimed in 'i ymy prior Patent 804,962, of date Novem- 21, 1905, entitled Voting machine. Ihese registers are indicated as entireties by the ynumeral 43, and are shown as provided with dovetailed pro'ections 44 that fit doyetail seats of verticalI supporting bars 45, see lparticularly Figs. 5, 6, 8 and 11. The unit member of each register is connected to move with a pin wheel 46, that is provided with ten laterally pro'ecting cam pms. For coperation with eac escape of the wheel `46, there is provided a so called escapement ".55 lever 47, that is pivoted to a sup orting plate 48, which in turn is secured to t e corresponding register supportin bar 45. At their inner ends, the levers 4 are formed with reversely projecting and reversely beveled cam lugs 49 that act upon the pins of the Ycoperating escapement Wheel 46 in a manner to be presently described. Also at their inner ends, the levers 47 are provided ,with laterally projecting lugs 50 that work in slots 51, (see Figs. 6, 11 and 31), of a register locking bar or strip 52 that is rigidly secured to parts presently? to be described. Ontward of their pivots, the escapement levers 47 are provided with cam lugs 53, and inward of their pivots, they are provided with cam lugs 54 that are adapted to be engaged by the cam bar or surface 27 ot the coperating key body 22, as will hereafter more fully appear.

The number of register supporting bars 45, as well as the number of registers on each bar, may, of course, be varied, but as shown, there are ten of these bars 45. The total number of registers, should however, correspond to the number of keys or register actuators in any one of the scgeral sets, and as shown they are mounted to move vertically in a skeleton segmental main support, as shown, made up of upper and lower three-armed brackets 55 and segmental tie bars 56. The hubs of the brackets 55 are rigidly secured to the shaft 6, and the segmental tie bars 56 rigidly connect the free ends of the arms of said brackets. The register supporting bars 45 are rigidly tied together for common vertical movement, as shown, by means of a pair of vertically spaced horizontally extended segmental tie bars 57. Also as shown, the vertically alined arms of the upper and lower brackets 55 are further rigidly connected by vertical tie bars 58. register locking bars 52, above described. are rigidly secured to the upper and lower segmental tie bars 56, see Figs. 6 and 11.

The upper and lower ends ofthe notched From the above, it will be seen that the re sters are directly mounted on a verticalljy movable supplemental support that is carried by an oscillatory main support. The weight of this supplemental support and of the registers and their escapements, is in part sustained by a yielding connection between the said main and supplemental support. This yielding connection is preferably aforded by one or more coiled springs 59, see Fig. 6, wherein the said spring is shown as attached at its lower end to a pin 60 projecting from the lower segmental tie bar 57, and at its upper end is adjustably connected by a nut and bolt 61 to a lug 62 secured lto one of the upright tie bars 58 of the main register carrym frame. As shown, the supplemental register support made up of the bars 45 and is connected to the main support, made up of the brackets 55 and bars 56 and 58, by means of short crank arms 68 pivotally connected to the arms of said brackets 55 and to short arms` 64 rigidly secured to the upper and lower segmental tie bars 57 of the Isaid supplemental support. The said cranks 63 support the said supplemental support with freedom for slight vertical movements.

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The two central members of the bars 45, see Figs. 6, 12, 13 and 15, are longer than the other me1nbers,.being extended both upward and downward. Their lower ends are connected by a so called cam bar 65, shown as ot' angular form, and their upper ends are rigidly connected by tie bracket tt, which is extended outward and provided with ay supl'n'irting shoe in the form of a reversely beveled centering head G7 best shown in Figs. t1. 1? and 1l. This head G7 rides upon an endless horizontally extended register supporting rail or track 68, that is rigidly secured to the lower edge ot an endless channel plate (39. the upper edge of which, as shown, is rigidly secured to the main frame ring 11` which it will be reA mcmlwred. is rigidly secured to the arms of the upper frame bracket 5. The ma'chine illustrated. being a four sectioned or part machine, that is, being provided with four sets of register actuators, the rail 68 is pro` vided at tour equi-distant points in its upper edge with reversely beveled centering notches 70 that are located for proper cooperation with the centering head 67 to posit ion the registers for proper cooperation with any one of the four sets of keys or register actuators. Also these notches 70 permit the suppleniental registering support, the registers and the register escapement dogs to be lowered slightly when they have been moved by horizontal oscillatory n1ovement into alinement with the respective register actuating keys.

Normally, the notches 70 are closed, or in other words, the track is made continuous, by so called rail plates or supplemental rail sections 71, which as shown, are guided for vertical movements on the out-er face of the rail (SS. being as shown. arranged to work through notches in the bearing plates 17 and in the channel plates 69. Each rail plate 71 is connected by a crank rod 72, see particularly Figs. (l, 1Q, 1?) and 14, to a ra dially extended crank shaft 73, journaled in the channel plate (3Q and in one of the bars At their outer ends, the crank shafts 73 are provided with operating arms 74, the positions ot' which serve to indicate whether the rail plates 71 are raised or lowered. For instance, when the said rail plates are raised, the arms 74- will be turned into a horizontal position against a fixed Stop 75 on one otl the bars' 15a, and the crank of the shaft 73 and thc rod 7i! will be thrown slightly to ene side ol a dad center, as shown in Yip'. lfl. and in this way, the rail plate will belorlsed in its raised or operative position so that the centering head (i7 may be t'reelv moved over the notch 70.`

On the lower end ot' the shaft tl is a spur gea r 7G that meshes with the beveled pinion 77, secured to the inner end of a shaft 78.

be oscillated or rotated, so as to bring the :ommen set of registers in front of any one of the several sets ot register actuating keys, 1n which positlen the so called centering head ("7 may be moved immediately over one of the centering notches 70 and onto the corresponding rail plate 71 and then, when the crank arm 74 is moved'upward and, through the crank rod 72 and shaft 73, the engaged rail plate 71 is lowered, the centering head 67 will be dropped into the said notch 70 and, by this movement., the registers and their escapement dogs are simultaneously lowered and accurately positioned laterally as will more fully appear in the description of the operation.

[register actuator or Ivey resta/Zug mec/Lan/Smf-For each column of register actuators or keys, there is a vertically disposed restoring blade SQ. seeFigs. 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 15, that extends ll'irough the body portion 2:? of the said keys. At their upper and lower ends. thc restoring blades 82 are provided with trunnions 85%. that work in slots S4 of segmental earn bars 85, which latter are mounted for endwise circular movement, the one-on the bearing plate 14 and the other on the bearing plate 17. There is, of course, an upper and lower cam bar for each ot' the four sets of keys, and each pair has vertically alined notches 86 that are Aemgaged by crank pins 87 of short cranks 88 secured to a vertical rock sha ft S9 mounted in suitable bearings afforded by the plates 14 and 17. At its lower end, each of the four independently movable rock shafts 89 is provided withan operating lever 90, and below the respective bearing plates 14, they are provided with segmental ratchet wheels 111. Fach ratchet wheel 91 is provided at one extremity with a lock shoulder 92 that. isnormally engaged by the hooked end of a spring pressed lock dog 93 shown as intermediately pivoted to a bearing 94 secured to the vertical portion of the bearing plate 14 and working through a sloty therein.

Secured to the depending ends of one of the long register supporting bars 45, is a trippingr eain 95, which when the registers are lowered by engagement of the centering head 67 with the centering notch 70, it engages the inner end of the alined lock dog Slfl and forces the same into an inoperative position, so that the rock shaft 89 may then be freely oseillated, or moved from the position indicated by full lines in Fig. 5, toward the. observer. This movement of the said rock shaft will slide the cam bars 85, and their oblique slots 84 acting on the trunnions 83 will simultaneously force all the restoring blades 82 of the particular set or section outward. Such outward movements of the restoring blade 82, will force all of the keys or register actuators radially outward from their set positions back to normal positions indicated in Fig. 11 and in various other views.

Each Vertical rock shaft 89 is also provided, as shown, just below its ratchet Wheel 91, with a segmental cam plate 96 having a raised cam flange 96, which when the rock shaft 89 is moved from its normal position, as above stated, engages the tlanged bar 65 and, acting thereon, smuiltaneously raises the connected bars 45 far enough to carry the centering head 67 out of the centering not-ch 70. Simultaneously with this raising action, a cam flange 97n of another segmental cam plate 97 which secured to the upper end of the rock shat't 89, engages the stud 72 and raises the corresponding rail plate 71 back to its normal position, and under which. action the arm 74 of the crank shaft 7 will drop and again throw its crank and the rod 72 back into its locked position best shown in best s Figs. 13 and 14. It may be here also stated that preferably the arm 74 is provided at its free end with the weight 74a, shown in Fig. 1 as in the form of a star.

The voting booths are preferably formed by segmental Wings or curved sheet metal plates 98 that are hinged at 98 to the pro- )ecting ends of the arms of the upper and.

lower brackets 4 and 5, see Figs. 1 and 2. Draw curtains 99 are shown as su ported by rods 100 thatV are detachably app ied to the o cned Wings 98. To indicate the position ol) the common set of registers, in respect to anyone of the several sets ot' keys or register actuators, the shaft (l, at its extreme upper end, is provided with the pointer 10i shown as connected thereto by small stem 1.02 and arranged to Work over light metal cap 193,

own in Figs.` Q an 6.

0peraton.-Figs. k1 and 2 show the inachine in condition for use. Normally,`thelock dogs 93 operating on the shoulders of the segmental 'ratchet wheels 91, hold the respective rock ,shafts 89 and operating le vers 90 in the positions best shown in Fig. 15. Normally also, the track plates 71 are, by the crank shafts 73, held in their upperfmost positions so that no matter Where the registers and their escaping levers 47 mayf normally stand, the register actuatin may be moved into set positions an back into normal positions. Without action on any of the registers. This is because when the head G7 rides on 'top of the rail (S8, or on top of a raised rail plate 71, the earn lugs 53 and 54 of the escapement levers 47 stand' keys 4operating Wheels 416.

in positions above the line of movement of the cam portions `27 of the respective key bodies 2Q. Hence, it a voter after having pushed one ot' the keys int o a set position, changes his mind. or has made a mistake, and wishes to vote tor another party. he simply pulls back the incorrectly sety key and pushes :mother key of the same group. W'hen the registers are in their normal or raised positions. the lugs 50 on the escapem-ent levers 47 are engaged by the upper extremities of the lock strips 52. and the registers are therefore then locked.

After the voter in any particular booth has pushed into set positions keys represent ing his entire rote. he moves the lever 74 which. is located within that; lie-ora, into an upright position. thcrel'ij; dro lhe cor responding rail plate 71 bei! time the upward movement of the said lever throws the star 74 above that particular booth, and this serves to indirate to the election judge or attendant, that he is ready to cast his vote. Then, by manipulation of the 'Wheel 81, the election judge or attendant turns the common set of registers until the pointer 101 points at the raises"- star. and this movement serves to bring tbe centering head 67 into the centering notch 70 which belongs to the booth and to the sit of regis ter actfuatiug keys which as inst i; ted, have been for the proper @tration of one persons complete vote, il n the. said cen' tering head drops into tentering notch 70.. the supplemental regiQ er support Witl'` its registers and their er lowered c #ly and a. sitioreel tha., when the set are mov from their "setf positions back to thtr normal positions, their (gam surfaces 27 gage rst the cam lut-frs fifi af l then the c lugs 53 of the respcci e er ment leil gt? (sec Fig. lli, eil will f vioart cot,

plete upward and do' movements to the said. upward nieuw-intents. of said levers operati Un l,am lug,t

.he pins oi pir-t half ster,A .5' movement to tho latter: an?? under d Ward morenients. the lower cani lugs part the ori hat? stein of' nioveme,x to said what ...u er one on each regi." Ais.

l lt will he re .t i -.hen the 1:. plemental register support is moved d. ward as just above stated, the trippini4 95 releases the lock der; 93 from the ratchet Wheel 91. This being done. the operator eilects the simultaneous r urn to ntrrual positions of all of the set registers, by .moreA ment of the operati' 2' ler-cr 90 in the `irection of the arroi f r thereon in Fig. 15. The same movethe said lever causes tft il iVY 

